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With the advent of high-spatial resolution (HSR) satellite imagery, urban land use/land cover (LULC) mapping has become one of the most popular applications in remote sensing. Due to the importance of context information (e.g., size/shape/texture) for classifying urban LULC features, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) techniques are...

Meeting summary of the IGES Brainstorming Forum, 11 April 2001, Tokyo. 2001 年3 月，米国ブッシュ政権は選挙キャンペーン時の公約であった電力部門へのCO2 規制を反古にし，また京都議定書に反対であるという内容の書簡を保守系上院議員に送った。続いて，米国が京都議定書に批准する意思がないことを公式に明らかにした．この意志表明は，京都体制の今後を不透明なものとし，国際社会に大きな波紋を投げかけた。IGES Brainstorming Forum では，米国離脱の可能性を含めた「京都体制の今後の展開」に関し，その見解・見通し・解決策について，欧米の専門家を交えて議論を行った。

Under the Paris Agreement, which was adopted in 2015, Los Angeles has been strongly motivated to be a global leader by creating an achievable climate action plan and sustainable solutions. To meet its goals, the city has developed L.A.’ s Green New Deal, which is an expanded version of the first Sustainable City pLAn developed in 2015. This Green...

"The Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges" At the High-Level Political Forum under the auspices of ECOSOC: 12 July, 2019

In this presentation, the characteristics of different consumer segments and their carbon footprints will be examined based on the analysis of consumer expenditure and time-use survey data. It utilises anonymised survey microdata and carbon intensity from existing EEIOA databases and focuses on in-depth analysis of the relationships between...

Household consumption in the United States has significant impacts on climate change through the consumption of food, mobility, housing, consumer goods, leisure, and others. Consumer lifestyles and their climate change impacts vary significantly across consumer segments due to their household characteristics, and how they spend money and time. In...